Publications by authors named "Jixin Liu"

Background: Cognitive dysfunction after traumatic brain injury (TBI) significantly reduces quality of life and imposes a heavy burden on society. A detailed examination of research trends of cognitive dysfunction following TBI has not yet been conducted. This study aimed to examine the bibliometric analysis of cognitive dysfunction after traumatic brain injury over the past 20 years.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background And Purpose: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common bowel-brain interaction disorder whose pathogenesis is unclear. Many studies have investigated abnormal changes in brain function in IBS patients. In this study, we analyzed the dynamic changes in brain function in IBS patients using a Hidden Markov Model (HMM).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • The study investigates the neurobiological factors that make individuals susceptible to fatigue after a mild COVID-19 infection, aiming to understand the link between brain structure and post-COVID neuropsychiatric symptoms.
  • Researchers used neuropsychiatric assessments and MRI scans on individuals who had COVID-19 and a control group to analyze brain regions related to fatigue.
  • Results indicate that specific brain areas, particularly the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, are linked to fatigue severity and can predict ongoing fatigue symptoms months after the infection, shedding light on the neural underpinnings of post-COVID conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • * Researchers used MRI data from 418 individuals to identify sex differences in the white matter structures of the brain, particularly the connections between the amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex.
  • * Findings indicate that the amy-gdala-medial prefrontal cortex pathway is linked to unique genetic and neurotransmitter influences on emotion processing, and similar differences were observed in infants, suggesting developmental implications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

This study investigates the influence of CYP3A4 gene polymorphisms on postoperative pain sensitivity and analgesic response in lung cancer patients undergoing intercostal nerve block with local anesthetics. Sixty patients (ages 31-74) undergoing thoracoscopic lung cancer surgery were enrolled and divided into two groups based on CYP3A4 gene expression level: Group I (high CYP3A4) and Group II (low CYP3A4). Postoperative pain was assessed using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), and patient-controlled intravenous analgesia (PCIA) pump usage, ECG ST-T segment changes, complications, hospital stay, and costs were recorded.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are linked to negative emotional states, but the connection between brain functions and these emotions is not well understood.
  • A study involving 98 IBD patients and 46 healthy subjects used functional MRI to examine brain activity, revealing distinct patterns in areas like the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and postcentral gyrus.
  • The research found that variations in brain activity in these regions correlate with different emotional constructs, such as pain-related negative emotions and trait depression, suggesting unique brain responses to emotional experiences in IBD patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Acupuncture is an effective and safe alternative treatment to prevent and treat migraine, but its central analgesic mechanism remains poorly understood. It is believed that the dysfunction of the thalamocortical connectivity network is an important contributor to migraine pathophysiology. This study aimed to investigate the abnormal thalamocortical network dynamics in patients with migraine without aura (MWoA) before and after an 8-week electroacupuncture treatment.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Given the escalating demand for renewable biofuels amidst the continual consumption of fossil energy, the exploration and identification of microalgal strains for biodiesel production have become crucial. In this study, a microalgal strain named HDMA-12 was isolated from Lake Chenjiadayuan in China to evaluate its biodiesel potential. Phylogenetic analysis of its internal transcribed spacer sequences revealed HDMA-12 as a new molecular record in the genus .

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Spatial omics technologies decipher functional components of complex organs at cellular and subcellular resolutions. We introduce Spatial Graph Fourier Transform (SpaGFT) and apply graph signal processing to a wide range of spatial omics profiling platforms to generate their interpretable representations. This representation supports spatially variable gene identification and improves gene expression imputation, outperforming existing tools in analyzing human and mouse spatial transcriptomics data.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Intracranial aneurysm (IA) is a prevalent disease that poses a significant threat to human health. The use of computed tomography angiography (CTA) as a diagnostic tool for IAs remains time-consuming and challenging. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant advancements in the field of medical image segmentation.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Pain empathy enables us to understand and share how others feel pain. Few studies have investigated pain empathy-related functional interactions at the whole-brain level across all networks. Additionally, women with primary dysmenorrhea (PDM) have abnormal pain empathy, and the association among the whole-brain functional network, pain, and pain empathy remain unclear.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Micro-light-emitting diodes (μLEDs), with their advantages of high response speed, long lifespan, high brightness, and reliability, are widely regarded as the core of next-generation display technology. However, due to issues such as high manufacturing costs and low external quantum efficiency (EQE), μLEDs have not yet been truly commercialized. Additionally, the color conversion efficiency (CCE) of quantum dot (QD)-μLEDs is also a major obstacle to its practical application in the display industry.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Pain empathy, defined as the ability of one person to understand another person's pain, shows large individual variations. The anterior insula is the core region of the pain empathy network. However, the relationship between white matter (WM) properties of the fiber tracts connecting the anterior insula with other cortical regions and an individual's ability to modulate pain empathy remains largely unclear.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Direct analysis of solid samples is difficult for ionic sensors due to issues with solid elements and interference from the surrounding matrix.
  • A novel "three-phase transforming" technique was developed to enable effective solid sampling and detection of cadmium (Cd) in soil, utilizing a portable electrothermal vaporizer and gold nanoparticle sensors for analysis.
  • The method showed a detection limit of 0.04 mg/kg of Cd with under 10 minutes of analysis time, demonstrating its effectiveness and potential for straightforward on-site contamination monitoring.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Spatial omics technologies are capable of deciphering detailed components of complex organs or tissue in cellular and subcellular resolution. A robust, interpretable, and unbiased representation method for spatial omics is necessary to illuminate novel investigations into biological functions, whereas a mathematical theory deficiency still exists. We present SpaGFT (Spatial Graph Fourier Transform), which provides a unique analytical feature representation of spatial omics data and elucidates molecular signatures linked to critical biological processes within tissues and cells.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The traditional UAV swarm assessment indicator lacks the whole process description of the performance change after the system is attacked. To meet the realistic demand of increasing resilience requirements for UAV swarm systems, in this paper, we study the modeling and resilience assessment methods of UAV swarm self-organized networks. First, based on complex network theory, a double layer coupled UAV swarm network model considering the communication layer and the structure layer is constructed.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Objective: This study sought to investigate the safety and clinical outcomes associated with the combined administration of dexmedetomidine (Dex) and remifentanil (Rem) in patients with coronary heart disease undergoing three-dimensional (3D) laparoscopic surgery, with concurrent monitoring of the electroencephalography (EEG) bispectral index.

Methods: This study is of a retrospective nature and involved a total of 60 patients with coronary heart disease who underwent 3D laparoscopic surgery at our hospital between June 2020 and September 2021. In a double-blind manner, these patients were randomly assigned to two groups: the control group (Group I), which consisted of 30 patients, and the treatment group (Group II) receiving a combination of Dex and Rem, also comprising 30 patients.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Pain empathy is a complex form of psychological inference that enables us to understand how others feel in the context of pain. Since pain empathy may be grounded in our own pain experiences, it exhibits huge inter-individual variability. However, the neural mechanisms behind the individual differences in pain empathy and its association with pain perception are still poorly understood.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background And Objectives: The objective of this study was to propose a clustering approach to identify migraine subgroups and test the clinical usefulness of the approach by providing prognostic information for electroacupuncture treatment selection.

Methods: Participants with migraine without aura (MWoA) were asked to complete a daily headache diary, self-rating depression and anxiety, and quality-of-life questionnaires. Whole-brain functional connectivities (FCs) were assessed on resting-state functional MRI (fMRI).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI) of endometrial cancer (EC) is a postoperative histological index, which is associated with lymph node metastases. A preoperative acknowledgement of LVSI status might aid in treatment decision-making.

Purpose: To explore the utility of multiparameter magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and radiomic features obtained from intratumoral and peritumoral regions for predicting LVSI in endometrioid adenocarcinoma (EEA).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Scientists developed a portable Hg-Cd analyzer to quickly test grains for toxic metals mercury (Hg) and cadmium (Cd) to improve food safety.
  • The system combines a metal-ceramic heater, catalytic pyrolysis furnace, and a miniature atomic absorption spectrometer for efficient analysis, achieving detection limits of 1.1 μg/kg for Hg and 0.3 μg/kg for Cd.
  • The method is quick, taking under 5 minutes for analysis without digestion or chemicals, and shows high accuracy with recoveries between 96-111%, making it effective for field monitoring of grain contamination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • The study focuses on enhancing gene therapy delivery to muscle tissues using recombinant adeno-associated viruses (AAVs), which are engineered to carry therapeutic agents more effectively and safely.
  • Various techniques are employed to create muscle-targeting AAV capsids by modifying existing wild-type sequences, leading to novel capsid libraries that can be tested in different animal models.
  • Recent advancements have produced specialized AAV variants named AAVMYO or MyoAAV, known for their high effectiveness in delivering therapeutics to striated muscles, which could significantly improve future clinical applications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic liver disease with limited treatment options, and researchers are exploring the potential therapeutic effects of a protein called rCsHscB derived from a liver fluke.
  • In a study, mice fed a toxic compound (DDC) showed improved liver conditions and reduced inflammation when treated with rCsHscB, indicating its protective benefits.
  • The treatment led to a significant reduction in liver fibrosis markers and an increase in PPAR-γ expression, hinting at its role in preventing disease progression and offering a new avenue for PSC treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: fopen(/var/lib/php/sessions/ci_session59j9jh71iu3d180mabe9ibge027uuve4): Failed to open stream: No space left on device

Filename: drivers/Session_files_driver.php

Line Number: 177

Backtrace:

File: /var/www/html/index.php
Line: 316
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: session_start(): Failed to read session data: user (path: /var/lib/php/sessions)

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 137

Backtrace:

File: /var/www/html/index.php
Line: 316
Function: require_once